[boost] Re: Standardization of quaternion, octonion, and specialfunction libs?

From: Hubert HOLIN (Hubert.Holin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-28 08:05:52

Somewhere in the E.U., le 28/06/2002
[Slowly getting back to speed]

"Powell, Gary" wrote:
> 
> Don't forget the game industry. Turns out quaternion's are used by
> people who do 3D game engines. They would like/use this library.
> 
> The only question I have is whether the current library should use
> expression templates to help the compiler eliminate temporaries. I
> suppose a well written specification wouldn't preclude that as the
> implementation.
> 
>   -Gary-
> 
> PS
>  Very few game programmers seem to know about boost yet, but that is
> changing.

[SNIP]

        Bonsoir

                Actually, I have started investigating the possibility of using my
libraries in conjunction with PETE (http://www.acl.lanl.gov/pete/), with
the aim of seeing quaternions and octonions as containers. There are a
few technicalities, but overall it should work, and thus eliminate many
temporaries (at perhaps the price of explitely coding the intent). I
intend to add examples to that effect to these libraries (perhaps not in
the current revision, but likely the next).

        A bientot

                        Hubert Holin
                        Hubert.Holin_at_[hidden]